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Upgrades of Windows 10 reset the default browser to Microsoft's new Edge browser, and this has caused Mozilla CEO Chris Beard to issue an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:
[T]he update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.
[...] We appreciate that it's still technically possible to preserve people's previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It's confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.
Firefox's market share continues to drop by varying degrees according to analysis by Martin Brinkmann of ghacks.net.
takyon: Microsoft reports that 14 million users took the plunge and installed Windows 10 yesterday. Microsoft has stated it wants Windows 10 on 1 billion devices within the next 3 years.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by ledow on Friday July 31 2015, @11:52AM
Is that 14 million people TRIED it, or 14 million people downloaded it, or 14 million people ticked the little box to say they wanted to download it at some point in the next year? Those answers give very different impressions of what this actually means.
I installed Windows 10 last year. We were giving the developer previews etc. to the kids in the school I work in to see if they could break it.
Pretty much, it's okay, but I need to wait for at least a year after release before I touch it. I can't afford to have display drivers crashing and start menus losing programs just because I rolled it out because it was an "RTM" version.
Because I work in schools, that means next September at the earliest. They should have fixed most of the junk by then. If not, we're on 8 already, so we're okay for a good number of years yet.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Friday July 31 2015, @12:56PM
Well I downloaded it three times (different versions and such) and installed it into a VM.
It will never touch my current machine until all it's stable and someone has written a hack to remove all the phone-home crap.
I have a Microsoft account, but I will never enter it as my Windows log on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @06:21PM
I was told Win 10 cannot be used in a VM, or a Win7 or 8 VM cannot be upgraded to 10. Is this true?
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Monday August 03 2015, @09:59AM
It can be used in a VM, as for an upgrade I don't know
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @03:10PM
I break windows 10 several times a day just by using. It is not going on my main pc.
(Score: 2) by Francis on Friday July 31 2015, @03:53PM
When I reboot in Virtualbox or change anything at all at that level, it reverts me to Windows 7. I think that might be a sign that I'm not supposed to be using 10. Not that I want to be using 10, just that it's free and there's a small number of programs I use that are Windows only and don't have a Linux alternative.